#EngTrivia: English Indonesian?

Maybe Wikipedia isn’t the official encyclopedia or the most trusted site academically, but interestingly… Have you ever stumbled upon this part of Wikipedia?

When you click on the link the explanation is as follows:

“The following is a partial list of English words of Indonesian origin; they are English language loanwords (kata serapan) that can be found in Indonesian, but many of them were borrowed directly from Malay during the British colonial period.”

How interesting, isn’t it? Previously, we have had some discussions on English words absorbing words from other languages. After knowing English language for so many years, I was never sure that some of these are from Indonesian/Malay language.

Here’s our top 10 list which we quite often hear or seen around us all the time:

Orangutan. From: orang hutan.

Everyone knows this endangered and cutest species, it is our duty to protect it always.

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